At this point, forkhead box D1 (FOXD1), the cognate sense transcript of FOXD1‐AS1, attracted our attention because it has been verified to be upregulated in gastric adenocarcinoma tissues (Xu et al., 2016) and is recognized as an oncogene in several cancers (Li et al., 2018). This evidence concerns the gene FOXD1 and gastric adenocarcinoma.